• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    On a single user system which either hibernates or shuts fully down you might as well long in automatically after you type in your 16 character encryption pass phrase. A login screen does not in any way provide additional security. Note this doesn’t actually prevent you from locking the screen and unlocking still requires your password.

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      6 hours ago

      But I think ‘encrypt home directory’ only encrypts your home partition, not your root partition. Not sure why many distros offer only this option in the graphical installer

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      10 hours ago

      I join that my setup. Hibernate after 15min and disk encryption and autologin on boot, but password is asked when going out of sleep for the 15 first minutes.